List of DC Comics characters: F

The first False-Face seen was among the five small-time criminals hired by organizer Black Star. Along with his colleagues Captain Bigg, Hopper, Brain and Rattler, he staged a robbery at a city bank by disguising himself as a construction worker. False-Face drilled through a water main and used the pressurised escaping water to blast a hole into the bank. After he and his friends robbed the bank, they used a paddy wagon as their getaway vehicle while disguised as police officers. Under the orders of Black Star, False-Face was sent to New Orleans to rob riches from those sponsoring the Mardi Gras event. He and his henchmen disguised themselves as a Clown Krewe and insinuated themselves onto a parade float. This managed to attract the attention of Shining Knight who was in the area at the time. False-Face escaped, but his henchmen were apprehended. He then attempted to steal the Star Sapphire Gem from Mardi Gras organizer J.J. Ennis. To do this, False-Face disguised himself as a police detective and infiltrated Ennis' house. He once again fought against the Shining Knight, and briefly subdued him, but the Shining Knight escaped from False-Face's trap and defeated him. False-Face was then arrested by the police. At this point, it was discovered that the unpleasant face he usually presented was not false at all.[Comics 1] Much later, he confronts the Star-Spangled Kid.[Comics 2]

A different False Face dies in a confrontation with Captain Marvel, Jr.[Comics 3] While not the same character as created for DC, the publisher would later license and eventually purchase the characters and stories that Fawcett published. The material would be assigned to "Earth-S" within the continuity of the DC Universe.

The late 1950s version of the character, created by an uncredited writer and Sheldon Moldoff, appeared once in Batman #113.[3]

Little is known of the Caped Crusaders' first meeting with the villain, but on their second chance encounter they found that he had impersonated a wealthy uranium tycoon named P.S. Smithington. As Smithington, False-Face robbed a Gotham City jewelry store, framing the true Smithington for the crime. Batman managed to rescue the actual Smithington, but was unable to recover the stolen jewels. At police headquarters, Commissioner James Gordon supplied Batman and Robin with information about the case and the two gave chase. This time, False-Face kidnapped rock star Wally Weskit during a charity benefit concert and concealed him in an elevator shaft. As False-Face assumed the form of Wally Weskit, his henchman Pebbles attempted to make off with the charity proceeds. Batman and Robin managed to prevent this, but False-Face and his gang escaped. The third time that False-Face struck, he impersonated a safari hunter named Arthur Crandall to get into the Gotham City's Explorer Club. While attempting to steal the club's Golden Tiger Trophy, Batman and Robin arrived and were on his heels again. He lured Batman towards a large water tank and managed to temporarily trap him, but the Dark Knight detective succeeded in outsmarting False Face and his men, apprehending the entire group in the process. False Face was taken to prison whereupon he soon retired from his life of crime.[Batman 1]

The late 2000s version of the character, created by Tony Bedard and David Cole, first appeared in Birds of Prey #112 (January 2008).[4]

She and White Star targeted Lady Blackhawk so that False-Face can take her place in Barbara Gordon's organization. Zinda managed to elude them with the help of her taxi driver Mahoud.[Batman 2]

• False Face appears in Batman, portrayed by Malachi Throne.
  • False Face appears in Batman '66 #23, in which his real name is revealed to be Basil Karlo before he obtains a special formula that transforms him into Clayface.[5]
• False-Face appears in the Batman Beyond episode "Plague", voiced by Townsend Coleman. This version has the ability to assume anyone's identity by altering his face, which he achieved through years of genetic manipulation and surgery. He is hired by Kobra to smuggle a deadly virus into Gotham City to infect its citizens and ransom the city. As a backup plan, Kobra also turned False-Face into a carrier for the virus. After running afoul of Batman and Stalker, False-Face attempts to evade them, only to succumb to and die from the virus.
• False-Face appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, voiced by Corey Burton. This version resembles the Batman (1966) incarnation.

Meena Dhawan / Fast Track appears in the eighth season of The Flash, portrayed by Kausar Mohammed.[10] This version is the CEO of Fast Track Laboratories and is in love with the amnesiac time remnant of Eobard Thawne. The two create the Biometric Lightning Oscillation Chamber (BLOC), which grants super-speed to Meena but also connects her to the Negative Speed Force to which Barry Allen and Thawne are able to reverse. She helps the Flash and Team Flash fight against the Negative Speed Force as well as the true version of the Reverse-Flash. Afterwards, Meena is normal.

Carl Ferris appears in the Green Lantern film, portrayed by Jay O. Sanders.

Shyleen Lao appears in the Titans episode "Doom Patrol", portrayed by Hina Abdullah. Chief came back home with "a new patient", an activist who's been covered by liquid nitrogen during an explosion and who's now apparently able to control temperature in her immediate vicinity. This caused Chief's lab to become a huge fridge responding to her fear.

Kurt Hartmann is a fisherman-themed criminal and an enemy of Doctor Mid-Nite.[20]

The Fisherman's real identity has never been revealed. The character's modus operandi is mainly involved with stealing high tech equipment, then selling it on the black market.[21]

The concept and first character, created by Joe Greene and Stan Aschmeier, first appeared in All-American Comics #69 (November–December 1945) as a single-use thief in the Doctor Mid-Nite strip.[22] The name was reused for a single appearance character in Blackhawk #163 (August 1961),[23] and later for a character that became a recurring opponent of Aquaman.[24] Within the context of the stories, this latter Fisherman is originally presented as an international criminal specializing in the theft of rare objects and scientific inventions. He utilizes a high tech pressure suit, collapsible fishing rod, and gimmick "lures" in his crimes. While his identity is never revealed, enough is known about him for the Gotham City coroner to state that a man wearing a copy of his equipment that is killed in Gotham is not the same person who faced Aquaman.[25]

In his first encounter with Aquaman, the Fisherman uses an explosive lure on Aquaman, almost killing him, but Aquaman escapes on a blue whale.[26] The Fisherman returns many times to fight Aquaman, as well as Blue Devil.[27] The Fisherman confronts the canine Green Lantern G'nort.[28] He appears in "Roulette"'s gladiatorial gamehouse.[29]

The Fisherman is one of the many supervillains to take advantage of the "villain-friendly" atmosphere of the fictional country of Zandia. He becomes involved in a large confrontation when the team of Young Justice leads a superpowered army against the country for various reasons.[30]

In Infinite Crisis #1 (2005), the Fisherman, along with the Riddler, the Body Doubles, the Scavenger, Red Panzer and Murmur attack Gotham police officers in Cathedral Square.

The attack is elaborated upon in the series Gotham Central. After a magical accident devastates Gotham, the villain goes on a rampage. Over the prone forms of other officers, the Fisherman confronts Renee Montoya and Crispus Allen. While strangling Allen, the Fisherman is shot dead by Detectives Marcus Driver and Josie MacDonald. Allen and Montoya survive. During an autopsy it is revealed that the dead man is not the original villain of that name.[31]

A new, more deadly version of the villain appears in Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis #48-49 (2007), written by Kurt Busiek. The Fisherman's helmet is revealed to be a xenoform parasite, a Lovecraftian alien that attaches itself to every incarnation of the Fisherman and uses telepathy to instill fear in its victims.[14]

• The Fisherman appears The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure.
• The Fisherman appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold, voiced by Dee Bradley Baker.
• The Flashpoint incarnation of the Fisherman appears in Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox.
• The Fisherman appears as a character summon in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.

• Arnold Flass appears in Batman Begins, portrayed by Mark Boone Junior. He is a corrupt police detective and partner to James Gordon who is in the pockets of mafia boss Carmine Falcone and indirectly works with Dr. Jonathan Crane and League of Shadows. When Ra's al Ghul unleashes the gas in the city, he is infected with fear toxin and restrained by Gordon, leading to his arrest.
• Arnold Flass appears in the animated adaptation of Batman: Year One, voiced by Fred Tatasciore.
• Arnold Flass appears as a recurring character in Gotham, portrayed by Dash Mihok. This version is a narcotics detective who works with James Gordon and Harvey Bullock. In "Welcome Back, Jim Gordon", while investigating two murders, Bullock and Gordon suspect him as a corrupt cop involved in drug business. Gordon begs Oswald Cobblepot in helping the case, the latter agreeing by sending his henchman Gabe to find Flass's associate, the Narcotics Officer Derek Delaware. Gabe extorted him by threatening his wife to get information about Flass, eventually bringing Delaware's confession on tape and the murder weapon to Gordon, whom he arrests Arnold Flass for two murders. In "Everyone Has a Cobblepot", Flass is released from the murder accusations, revealed to be a work of police commissioner Gillian B. Loeb who blackmailed Bullock into exonerating Flass of the murder of Leon Winkler, which led to Flass being reinstated. Gordon and Bullock ask Oswald for help to enter Loeb's house to get his files. Gordon discovers Loeb's reason for releasing Flass: the connection with Carmine Falcone (which was claimed from Loeb's ex-partner Charlie Griggs) and the mental disease of his daughter Miriam, who killed own mother 20 years ago, in which Loeb fabricated the case, claiming that she died from falling the stairs in the house so that he could protect Miriam from being sent to Arkham. When Gordon confronts him in the office, Loeb wants to resign, but Gordon assures him to stay as a latter's leverage. In exchange for keeping Miriam's whereabouts as a secret, Gordon begs him to give a files of every cop being on Loeb's payroll for prosecutor Harvey Dent and that Loeb supports Gordon as a president of police union, but Loeb gives him Bullock's file; with enough evidence, Arnold Flass is presumably arrested and found guilty at trial.